Shiri Berg applied a product called Lasergel Plus 10/10, a powerful anesthetic containing 10
percent lidocaine and 10 percent tetracaine.
Blanca Bolanos, a 25 - year - old from Tucson, Arizona, suffered a similar fate (convulsions, then a two - year coma ending in death) after using a cream of 6
percent each lidocaine and tetracaine prior to laser hair removal.
During the treatment, which is minimally invasive and does not involve needles touching the patient, researchers inserted a spaghetti - sized catheter through the nasal passages and administered 4
percent lidocaine to the sphenopalatine ganglion, a nerve bundle just behind the nose associated with migraines.
Not exact matches
However, among patients whose cardiac arrest was witnessed by a bystander, those who received either amiodarone or
lidocaine during resuscitation had a 5
percent greater chance of survival to hospital discharge compared with those who received a placebo, which was a statistically significant difference.